Shoe lace



Dec. 11, 1923. 1,476,677

J. ALVAREZ SHOE LACE Filed Dec. 4. 1922 INVENTOR WITNESS? ATTORNEYFatented Dec. ll, 1923.

UNITED STTES PATENT O FFICE.

SHOE LACE.

Application filed December 4, 1922. Serial No. $,852J

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jus'ro ALvARnz, acitizen of Spain, residing at Flushing, in the county of Queens andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in ShoeLaces, of which the folowing is a specification.

My present invention relates to shoe laces and has for its object toprovide a lace of peculiar and advantageous construction, susceptible ofbeing applied to a shoe in such manner that it is very easy to fasten orunfasten the lace quickly, and the lace is not liable to render a shoeuncomfortable or to detract in any measure from the finished appearanceof a shoe.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in theimprovement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figurel is a View showing the application of my novel lace to a shoe.

Figure 2 is a view of the lace per se.

Figure 3 is an enlarged diametrical section showing my improvement onone end of the lace.

Similar numerals ofreference designate corresponding parts in all of theviews of the drawings.

The lace l is preferably, though not nec essarily, of round type and isprovided on one of its ends with a tip member 2 or is otherwise equippedto facilitate its insertion through the eyelets of a shoe. At itsopposite end the lace is provided with a button best shown in Figure 3and which constitutes/the salient feature of my inven tion. The saidbutton is made up of a small metallic disk 3 and a small metallic disk4. These disks are of circular form, and the disk 3 is provided with aperipheral fastening flange 5. The disk t has at its inner side a smallround tube 6 adapted to receive and when properly clamped to hold anykind of shoe lace. After the end portion of the shoe lace is secured inthe tube 6, the metallic disk 3 is applied to the outer side of themetallic disk 4, and the flange is fastened over the peripheral portionof the disk 3, when the disk 3 will be strongly con nected to the disk4, and the lace will be permanently connected to the two disks.

nected disks 3 and 4 In this connection it will be noted that oneendportion of the'lace is frayed, and is housed and secured'between thetwo disks, Figure 3. This manifestly lends strength to the connectionofthe button to thelace, and at the same time completely encloses andprotects the frayed end of the lace.

As will be understood from Figure 1 of the drawings the button formed bythe conin the manner described in the foregoing, is placed in the uppereyelet at the inside of a shoe, and the end ofthe string. is passedthrough the lower eyelet from the outer side of the shoe. From this itfollows that it is extremely easy to fasten or unfasten the laceexpeditiously, and itwill also be noticed that the lace is not liable tosubject the wearer to discomfort, and when the lace is properly used theshoe will be free of knots or visible string ends.

I have entered into a detailed description of the constructionandrelative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferredembodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear and exactunderstanding of the said embodiment. I

. do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to thespecific construction and relative arrangement of pants inasmuch asinthe future practice of the invention various changes and modificationsmay be made such asfall within the scope of my invention as defined inmy appended claim;

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is z- A shoe lace having at one end a frayed portion anda button made upof two metallic. disks, one of the disks beingaperztured and provided with a lateral central tube receiving a part ofthe lace, and t ie other their being applied to the side of the first--named disk and the said end portion of the lace being frayed'and housedbetween the disks, remote from the tube and being provided with acircumferential fastening flange straddling the peripheral portion ofthe first-named disk whereby the disks are connected together and thelace is permanently secured to the disks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signa- JUSTO ALVAREZ.

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